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Swarfega

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Registered: 2011-08-19

Posts: 104

[SOLVED] Adding a new HDD

Hi all,

I've added a new HDD to my virtual Arch install. I have used fdisk to partition the whole 300GB disk. I will be using this disk to point Plex Media Server to it as to where I store my media.
How do I create a new folder on this disk that the software can access?  Arch wiki for plex suggests 'chmod 775 ~/ and usermod -a -G users plex' for access but being new to Linux I'm assuming I need to mount the disk with a folder?

I tried a

mkdir /mnt/media
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/media

But upon rebooting it's gone.

Last edited by Swarfega (2014-03-19 22:32:33)

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: [SOLVED] Adding a new HDD

To mount it permanently you need to add an entry to your fstab.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fstab

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Swarfega

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Registered: 2011-08-19

Posts: 104

Re: [SOLVED] Adding a new HDD

Perfect thank you. Other than typing this manually is there no way to make it autopopulate?
Such as during install? (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … e_an_fstab)